The Nicodemus enterprise. [volume] (Nicodemus, Kan.) 1887-1887, 1887-08-31
THE CORONER'S FIND.

The Jury in the Chatsworth Railway Dis
aster Investigation Hold the Section
Boss--Another Death.
CHATswoRTH, ILL.,, Aug. 1S.-The following
is the verdict found by the coroner's jury to-
day in regard to the recent train wreck here:
We find tina. the wrecking of said train,
which totally demolished eight coaches, one
baggage car and one engine, and either kllieo
or wounded most of the occupants OF SAID
coaches, was caused bv said bridge having
been burned out before the train struck 1t
We think, from the evidence, that the bridge
was fired from fire still burning, which hao
been set as late as ) O'Clock that after
noon by the section men, as close
as six. cen feet both east and west
from the bridge. We further find that
the foreman Of section Z, Timothy Con5hlla,
diSobeyed positive orders from his Superior,
to examine the Track and bridges on his sec
ton the last thing on Wedne sd2y; and that
said foreman, COu1hlin, was guilty OF gross
and criminal carelessness in leaving the fires
burning along the track in such dry season,
and with sucn e strong wind blowing. We
recommend that he Oe held for examination
by the grand jury; and further, 1t is the
opinion of The jury that the leaving OF the
track without being patrolIed for six hours
the setting OF fires Dy section men on such &
dry and windy Cay as the 10th of August,
1887, were acts which serve severe criticism,
Timothy CGughln, section foreman, was
arrested and will be takj n to the county seat
at once He says b. cannot give bail: insists
| that the verdict is just; that he went over
the entire section as ordered. and that no
| fires were built as nelr the bridge as Heald
| and Taggart testified.
PERsUING TIE INVESTIGATION.
| PEORIA, III, Aug. 1S.-The state board O
| railroad aud warehouse commissioners con
| tinued their inves, cation Of the Chatswoit Il
disaster here today. They examined large
number OF additional witnesses as to the de
tails of the accident. David G.. Sutherland
| engineer Of the first engine, was recalled. hi
testimony was substantially the same as tn
story he has told before. The Ere was Of sucl
a nature that at distance of So
feet he was nos satisfied that th'
b tdge was burning. He did not believe
| could have been seen much further eli iron
his direction. His engine was the drst BE-
cause it Was not equipped with atr-bTate
while McCintOch's engine was. His engln
was put on because OF it's strength. Whe
he saw the bridge was In embeTs be shut OF
steam merely as natural movement. Attn
bridge the engine seemed To sink down
felt shock and opened the throttle clear out
He did not give any signal, probably oecaus
he was paraly Zad. On down grade, gotn
1t the rate OF forty miles an hour, witneS
did not believe the train could have bee
stopped inside OF a quarter of mile, even
the air brakes were applied in full force an
the engines reversed.
Mrs. McUlintock, widow of the dead Ell
gineer, testified that her husband remarke
to her that he wished he didn't have TO 2
out, as he didn't like to have another ma
ahead of him. He made no other objection
He had been on the road twenty-one years ar
was regarded as one of the most competel
engineers On it.
ANOTHER DEATH.
CHICAGO, Aug. 1S.-AnOther victim OF Il
Chatsworth wreck died this morning at Fa1
bury. His name was Elton Waters, of Ca
taraugus, N Y. Unit! within few deys
the accident he was employed in the vat
factory at ElgIn. This makes the total nul
, her Of verified deaths seventy-eight